A common concern among mom's is that they are worried that their milk supply is dropping. If that is true the first thing that you want to find out is why is that happening? So that we can rectify it. Then once we have done that, we look at helping mom increase her supply. The first and foremost important thing is increasing breast stimulation. So if you have a good nursing baby, we want mom's to increase their times at breast as much as she can throughout day and night. If the baby is a so-so nursers we will have the moms again attempt to nurse as much as possible but we are going to follow it up with some pumping. So that the breast get some added stimulation. The next thing to help moms with is rest. It is really hard for new mom's. So if she can incorporate family and friends to help her with housework and cooking so that she can do more naps, lie down next to her baby, increase her nursing time it is helpful. Third of all is food all food is not nearly as important as we once thought. Although mothers need to be nourished with healthy food, but eating lots and lots and lots of food is not going to increase milk supply by itself. Lastly lots of people have read that water is really important to increase milk supply. Mothers need water but they should just drink for thirst instead if you over hydrate you can actually decrease milk supply, just drink for thirst.